MÜHLIG UND ADOLF LINS, HUGO1854 Dresden - 1929 Düsseldorf / 1856 Kassel - 1927 Düsseldorf
Title: Portrait of a Married Couple with their Dog on a Terrace in front of the Siebengebirge Panorama.
Date: 1899.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 75.5 x 121cm.
Notation: Signed and inscribed lower right: "Hugo Mühlig 1899 A. Lins".
Frame: Framed.
Provenance:
Private ownership, Germany.
The sitters are the sugar manufacturer Karl vom Rath and his wife Elisabeth, who were portrayed on the spacious terrace of their villa at Kurfürstenallee 9 in Bad Godesberg. Hugo Mühlig and Adolf Lins had a close friendship. Based in Düsseldorf, they travelled the Rhineland together, worked on similar motifs and also painted together.
